Improvement in link-guides for car-couplings



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UNITED STATES PATENT ()rrron WILLIAM M. REEDER, OF DALTON CITY,ILLINOIS,

IMPROVEMENT IN LINK-GUIDES FOR CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,438, dated November3, 1874; application filed I September 10, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. REEDER, of Dalton City, county ofMoultrie and State of Illinois, have invented a Oar- Coupling, of whichthe following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to couple cars without going between themto place the link or the pin; and consists, first, in a device to holdthe link at any height desired; and, second, in a device to raise andlower the pin.

Figure 1 represents an end View of a car with my invention attached;.and Fig. 2 a, section on the dotted line a: .70, Fig. 1.

a represents the draw-head, constructed in the usual manner; I), thepin. This pin is attached and pivoted to the levers c c by the links 01d, by means of which the pin is raised or lowered through the draw-head,the levers extending out beyond the body of the car. The end of the link0 is raised and lowered by means of the piece f. This piece is pivotedon the body of the car at g g, or it may be pivoted to the draw-head. Ayoke, k, is pivoted at e e to the piece f, and also attached, with links42 i, to the levers h h.- These levers also extend out beyond the bodyof the car, and both the levers c and h slide in slots in the segments jj. The coupling is operated as follows, viz: The

pin can be raised from either side of the car by means of either of thelevers c 0, and the lever held byteeth in the slots in the segment. Onthe car that it is designed to couple to, the link being secured by thepin to the drawhead, the outer end is raised or lowered through themedium of the lever h, operating the piece f, holding the link at theposition desired until itenters the draw-head on the opposite car,

when, by releasing the lever c, the pin falls through the link, when thepiece f can belowered.

The piece f, when placed in theposition shown in Fig. 2, serves as aguide to the link when the link is in the opposite car.

I am aware that link-guides and supporters have been operated by acrank, as in patent to Brown and Jedkins, January 28, 1873; but such Ido not claim.

I claim as my invention- The piece f, beveled as shown, to serve as alink supporter and guide, combined with the yoke k, links 13 z, andlevers h h, as and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM M. REEDER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. P. HoUsUM, Tnno. COLEMAN.

